General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

6. Mount --- is the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (7)

7. 4th century B.C. Athenian courtesan who was a mistress of Alexander the Great (5)

9. Spirit made from sugar cane (3)

10. Viola’s twin brother in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (9)

12. Inland republic in West Africa whose capital is Ouagadougou (7-4)

15. 1994 animated film featuring songs by Tim Rice and Elton John (3,4,4)

17. Grouse such as Lagopus mutus (9)

19. Josef, Bohemian composer and violinist who was Dvorak’s son-inlaw (3)

21. A member of a body of lancers first employed in the Polish army (5)

22. The --- Peninsula of S.W. Europe is occupied by Spain and Portugal (7)

DOWN

1. ‘The ---’, short story by Robert Graves filmed in 1978 (5)

2. Seventh letter in the Greek alphabet (3)

3. Collective noun for a group of badgers (4)

4. Novel by Jack London which features the Indian chief Grey Beaver (5,4)

5. Pablo, artist whose paintings include Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (7)

8. Village in Egypt, site of part of the ruins of ancient Thebes (6)

11. See 14 Down

13. Clay used in the manufacture of bone china (6)

14 & 11D Play by Joe Orton first performed in 1969 (4,3,6,3)

16. A member of the class of peasants in Russia who became proprietors of their own farms (5)

18. Heryanto, 1995 men’s singles badminton world champion (4)

20. Jean, French artist whose works include Sculpture to be Lost in the Forest (3)